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TAKE the ONLINE SEXUAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE at VARSITY.CO.UK 21St October 2011 Something to Say? 2 EDITORIAL Letters@Varsity.Co.Uk News Interview p8 Comment p13 Varsity helps you to Features p25 pimp your bike ride Pub landlord Al Murray Time to play your speaks to Varsity about Bill? What Obama comedy, Cambridge and can learn from “the bloody Footlights” Clinton Friday 21st October 2011 The Independent Student Newspaper since 1947 Issue No 744 | varsity.co.uk News p6-7 Fire in the disco: An unfair election? Varsity looks at the hot topic of Evidence suggests that Lord Sainsbury may have had an unjust advantage in vote Cambridge’s changing nightlife Reviews p27 “ T h e fi l m pursues one side of what is really a more complex The Vice-Chancellor casts his vote in Senate House. The University has argument” come under fi re from academics and students for encouraging members of the Senate to vote for their chosen India Ross candidate, Lord Sainsbury on The Greatest Movie Ever Sold giving “advance notice” that Sains- Press, which stressed that Sainsbury to encourage employees to vote for p35 bury would be dining as his guest has been one of the university’s larg- Sainsbury, the university’s offi cial Sport earlier this month. est single benefactors in recent years. candidate. Blues get La-cross Andrew Griffi n Hum claimed that the future chan- After informing members of the A similar email was sent to the ASSOCIATE EDITOR cellor would be his “personal guest”, rules for voting, the email went on Cambridge Neuroscience email list with close defeat but that “in view of the forthcoming – which includes a number of promi- Senior members of the university elections for Chancellor, I shall try to nent academics – which told members at the hands of used their position to support Lord give him an opportunity to talk to as “Without wishing to force opinion, if Reading. See full Sainsbury’s bid to be chancellor, a many Fellows as possible.” 200,000 you have yet to make up your mind, Varsity investigation has found. He also told members of the col- Estimated number of members you may wish to consider Lord Sains- match report. The heads of a number of faculties lege that “If Fellows wish there to be bury of Turville”. and departments sent emails to their some form of discussion over dessert of Senate House eligible to vote David Ford, the Regius Professor of members implying that they should I am sure that he would fi nd this very Divinity, also wrote an email to mem- vote for Sainsbury as chancellor. valuable.” bers of the Divinity Faculty in which Sir Christopher Hum, the Master Earlier this week, Varsity revealed he wrote “I would urge you of Gonville and Caius College, sent that an email had been sent to employ- 5,558 to join me in voting for him 4 » an email to all Fellows of the college ees of the Cambridge University Number of valid votes cast this week.” TAKE THE ONLINE SEXUAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE AT VARSITY.CO.UK 21st October 2011 Something to say? 2 EDITORIAL www.varsity.co.uk [email protected] DIGITAL DIGEST Established in 1947 Issue No 744 Old Examination Hall, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RF Telephone: 01223 337575 Fax: 01223 760949 VARSITV VarsiTV Sessions: Episode One with Jake Alden-Falconer VarsiTV Sessions kicks off with Cam- bridge student and singer-song-writer Jake Alden-Falconer. Jake debuts his new track ‘Heaven is no place for cars’ from Trinity Hall’s Master Lodge. s if we didn’t know it already, seen this occur with a worrying intensity revelations. Oxford University does not this weekend’s Chancellorship – witness last year’s bursary debate and presume to decide its chancellor, it allows Aelection was seen by the no confi dence vote, and the University’s its members to. Cambridge should follow University as an unwelcome irrelevance, reaction to the government’s higher its lead, and be proud to do so – if the a frustrating (but easily overcome) education policies in general. Chancellor is only a symbolic position, obstacleE in having their own nominee This paper was careful not to give then it should at least be meaningfully elected. its support to any particular candidate symbolic. There is no reason, now, for anyone in the race – they each have their This election should bring with it other LIFESTYLE else to think otherwise. Ostensibly, this advantages and disadvantages, and we reforms, too: undergraduate members, A Passage to India university is a transparent self-governed are not arrogant enough to suppose those who have the most proximity In part four of his series of travel body of scholars, committed to learning that we either should or could affect the to many issues facing the university, journal extracts, Tom Belger describes and knowledge. In reality, it is being run democratic will of the Senate. But this should be able to vote. Elections should how train travel in India adds an ele- increasingly like a business, and power is no business of the University’s either, be conducted online, to up this election’s ment of adventure to a cross-country commute. is being progressively transferred which should no longer believe that it embarrassingly low – and undemocratic away from academics and towards the can choose a candidate and automatically – turnout. Perhaps Cambridge gets executive, in the name of efficiency have them elected. the elections, and the chancellors, it and corporation. True, this is partly a This was why this election was already deserves. All we have the power to do reaction to economic reality. Yet we have problematic, even before this week’s now is to wait and see. exhibitions of student artwork starts by recognizing that graphic via Varsity Online Letters, within the University, compared arts exist outside museums the VICE with the number of plays or concerts same way that dramatic arts are not PEDESTRIAN PROBLEMS Spruce a soup Emails & performed. He has perhaps missed limited to classical interpretations of the key distinction between these. Greek tragedies. Despite all the crit- Dear Sirs From that familiar fi rst glug as you Whilst it is common to buy a ticket to icism that theatre reviewers direct I wish to make a comment on pour it into the bowl, to the suspicious Comment see a play or a concert, commercial towards a play’s directing/lighting/ the dire state of pedestrianism in odour wafting from the microwave, galleries would not dream of doing acting, I’ve yet to see one that even Cambridge. I recognize that this city shop-bought soups can be depressing. Jessica Donnithorne shows you how to COMMENT ON ARTS COMMENT so. Indeed many offer incentives such mentions the poster. is better equipped for the walker enject life into your favourite broth. as free wine or live music in order to Claudia Stocker, Gonville and rather than the driver or cyclist, Dear Sirs, attract people to an opening night. Caius College but there is an etiquette involved in I would like to disagree with This coupled with the high cost www.camgraphik.com pedestrianism - and it is being wil- George Shapter’s piece about the the of renting a space means that any fully ignored. The good pedestrian is state of visual arts in the University. society hoping to stage an exhibition SAINSBURY’S SUCCESS cautious, aware of his surroundings Whilst he is right to mourn the loss would have to be confi dent of selling and capable of rational thought; the of the Shop Jesus Lane, I believe several pieces a show in order not to Under STV this is a handsome hobbledehoy who traipse the streets that if he is looking for visual arts at go out of business. win. With no need for any run-off of Cambridge display none of these the University, he is looking in the Even those student art exhibi- rounds. I hope all the comedy can- qualities. wrong places. His comment that ‘it tions that are staged in free venues, didate campaigners will respect the Yes, the city possesses a beautiful VARSITV was hardly ever there in the fi rst and therefore do not have to charge democratic will of the Senate skyline, but this is best appreci- place’ strikes me as bizarre. In his artists for the privilege of exhibit- George Igler, Cambridge ated from the pavement. Standing, Cindies Stories, Episode Two: Cambridge career so far, has he ing their own works, are generally via Varsity Online completely stationary, in the middle The Passion of Cindies never come across a theatre poster, poorly attended. Is it any wonder of the road, taking holiday snaps of We’ve got Jesus. We’ve got Ninjas. The a photograph in a fashion spread, or that most artists would rather opt I propose that in celebrating his your favourite college is obstructive second installment of the new series even an illustration in the paper he for a print run of 5,000 for a maga- win, Sainsbury should award each and rude. of Cindies Stories continues where the writes for? zine illustration or theatre fl yer? alumni 1000 Nectar points, anyone An anonymous and angry fi rst left off with yet more drunken Perhaps what he is saying is In order to encourage the art second? Cambridge resident embarrassment for late-night revellers. that there are not enough gallery scene in Cambridge, I suggest one Dixon Tang, Cambridge Varsity has been Cambridge’s independent student newspaper since 1947 and distributes 10,000 free copies to every Cambridge college, to ARU and around Cambridge each week. E Rhys Treharne & Laurie Martin edtor@varstycouk A E Andrew Griffi n assocate@varstycouk D E Joe Robertson dgtal@varstycouk D E George Shapter desgn@varstycouk N E Tristan Dunn & Samantha Sharman news@varstycouk C N R Matt Russell & Joanna Tang deputynews@varstycouk C E Felix Danczak comment@varstycouk S E Matt Blythe sport@varstycouk D S E Michael
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